From Utterance to Vividity: Training Expressive Subtitle Translation LLM via Adaptive Local Preference Optimization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01068v1
• Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:24:06 GMT
• Title: From Utterance to Vividity: Training Expressive Subtitle Translation LLM via Adaptive Local Preference Optimization
• Authors: Chaoqun Cui, Shijing Wang, Liangbin Huang, Qingqing Gu, Zhaolong Huang, Xiao Zeng, Wenji Mao,
• Abstract summary: We focus on how to construct translation LLMs that meet the needs of domain customization.<n>We take visual media subtitle translation as our topic and explore how to train expressive and vivid translation LLMs.
• Score: 12.547838537411215
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced the general capabilities of machine translation. However, as application scenarios become more complex, the limitations of LLMs in vertical domain translations are gradually becoming apparent. In this study, we focus on how to construct translation LLMs that meet the needs of domain customization. We take visual media subtitle translation as our topic and explore how to train expressive and vivid translation LLMs. We investigated the situations of subtitle translation and other domains of literal and liberal translation, verifying the reliability of LLM as reward model and evaluator for translation. Additionally, to train an expressive translation LLM, we constructed and released a multidirectional subtitle parallel corpus dataset and proposed the Adaptive Local Preference Optimization (ALPO) method to address fine-grained preference alignment. Experimental results demonstrate that ALPO achieves outstanding performance in multidimensional evaluation of translation quality.

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